Archives - 25 April 2017, Tuesday

WASHINGTON — Telehealth services for veterans have expanded dramatically in recent years, but a group of lawmakers worries that federal rules governing that remote care haven’t kept up. On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of House members and senators reintroduced legislation designed to b...

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WASHINGTON — Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Randolph Alles, an Iraq War veteran who oversaw several aviation units, was named the next head of the U.S. Secret Service. Alles served 35 years in the Marine Corps and retired in 2011. He is currently working as the acting deputy commissio...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Indonesia will acquire Lockheed Martin’s Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod to equip its Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets as part of a $10 billion trade and investment agreement signed between the United States and Indonesia. The agreement was signed...

Norm Hatch, a Marine Corps veteran who played a crucial role in the famous Iwo Jima photo and whose footage from the Battle of Tarawa won an Academy Award, died Saturday at his home outside Washington. He was 96. His family members plan to hold a memorial service at Arlington National...

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Robert Story Karem as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs and Kari Bingen as principal deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence. Bingen, who has served in several congr...

The Army's top personnel officer is on tap to be the next vice chief of staff, according to a nomination received Monday by the Senate. Lt. Gen. James McConville, currently the deputy chief of staff for personnel, would replace Gen. Daniel Allyn as Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley...

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The Fayetteville Police Department is investigating the death of a 24-year-old Fort Bragg, North Carolina, soldier after he was found dead of a gunshot wound on Sunday. Authorities responded to a 911 call from Sgt. Jason Wiens' ex-wife after she discovered his body in his off-post apa...

Indonesia has taken more steps towards upgrading its naval facilities in the South China Sea Upgrades will allow the deployment of larger vessels in the disputed maritime region The Indonesian Ministry of Defence has issued a tender to upgrade a naval pier at Sabang Mawang on Pulau Na...

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Intelligence drives operations. This is an age old axiom that is no less true in modern military operations than it was during the Mongol reign of Central Asia. The Mongols were a devastating military force whose conquests have been memorialized in countless works. Their ability to ma...

Harris has also met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is "widely considered by the Chinese as an unrepentant conservative politician who harbors no good feelings towards China," Zhu noted, adding that those meetings don't sit well with some in China. Harris will be in charg...

WASHINGTON — The total acquisition cost of the U.S. Marine Corps’ new heavy lift helicopter has increased from $26.1 billion to $27.7 billion — a result of growing labor costs and the move of its production line, the service’s program manager said in an exclusive interview with Defens...

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley office expects to transition prototype projects to the military services for use sometime in the next two months — an important milestone for a group with a somewhat uncertain future. Raj Shah, the head of the Defense Innovation Unit Experime...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on Tuesday against suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq and in northeastern Syria, the military said, in a bid to prevent militants from smuggling fighters and weapons into Turkey. The attack killed at least 18 U....

Rebuking China for naming six places of Arunachal Pradesh on its map, the students union of the state on Monday held a protest rally against the move while criticising the state government for remaining silent on the issue. The Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU) reached the str...

Rio de Janeiro: A War By Any Other Name Robert Muggah The police officer shot the two men as they lay bleeding. The summary execution of injured and unarmed men by the police were caught on film last month, this time in Rio de Janeiro. They were not the first and will not be the last....

With the advent of the F-35B, pressure on carriers and aviation tasking can easily be solved, with USS American Class (LHA-6) large aviation platforms being in more place at once, and at less cost. Those Expeditionary Strike Groups will need a VSTOL/STOVL AEW&C capability. Surface com...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is sharply criticizing Turkey for attacking Kurdish militants in Syria and Iraq, and not coordinating with the United States beforehand. State Department spokesman Mark Toner says U.S. officials are "deeply concerned" by the airstrikes, and they'v...

Marine veteran Maximilian Uriarte, creator of the widely popular “ Terminal Lance ” comic strip, was awarded the James Webb Award for his graphic novel, “ The White Donkey .” “I feel humbled and honored to be considered among such esteemed company in these awards,” Uriarte told Milita...

Russia could resume direct communication with the U.S. military about operations in Syria as long as both countries "continue the same fight — and not a different one," Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak said Tuesday. Both the U.S. and Russia signed an agreement in October 2015 about h...

Russia’s defence industry holding company Rostec has said its subsidiary Techmash is considering setting up a facility in Indonesia to support the localised production of munitions. Rostec said on 24 April that the potential programme would see Techmash launching a licensed production...

Top US general says 'not refuting' reports Russia supplying Taliban By Reuters Published: April 24, 2017 SHARE TWEET EMAIL US Army General John Nicholson (L), commander of US Forces Afghanistan, and US Defence Secretary James Mattis (R) hold a news conference at Resolute Support headq...

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In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” executive order, commentators have condemned, even ridiculed, it — and thus demonstrated a fundamental and consistent misunderstanding of the vital role a secure domestic supply chain plays in our national secu...

“Art therapy is not arts and crafts. It’s not even someone like me with a master’s degree in art education. It’s not something I could do," Pence continued. “So, art therapy is where you take these amazing professionals here who are therapists, who understand psychology and they under...

Q. Mr Stoltenberg, first of all thank you for being here and for the opportunity to ask some questions, because it’s not like it’s sunny days in relations between Russia and NATO. Let me start with the problems first, and then we go to the common issues. How would you call the conditi...

PITTSBURGH (Tribune News Service) — For his 94th birthday on Saturday, John Galasso’s son and daughter and their spouses took him out to dinner and planned to continue the celebration with 20 other family members and friends Sunday afternoon at PNC Park, where the Pirates played the N...

This week, we can expect the usual “Will we avoid a government shutdown?” media stories, this time with a focus on the battle over funding the border wall. While avoiding a shutdown is an important and necessary objective, it should not be confused with an accomplishment anymore than ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea — South Korea's military said Tuesday that North Korea held major live-fire drills in an area around its eastern coastal town of Wonsan as it marked the anniversary of the founding of its military. The exercise took place as a U.S. guided-missile submarine arriv...

Dave Miller assists homeless Veterans and those at risk during a Stand Down for Homeless Veterans event at the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center By Hans Petersen Tuesday, April 25, 2017 David Miller is VA’s Male Volunteer of the Year. A Marine Corp Veteran, Miller served in Vietnam du...